NEW TESTAMENT

Matthew 27:7

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They took counsel, and bought the potter’s field with them to bury strangers in.

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Verse 7. Burying-place. This the Pharisees did, as a shew of their charity to strangers; but their intention, according to S. Jerom, was to disgrace Jesus; thus to keep alive in the minds of the people, that he was sold by one of his own disciples, and delivered up to a disgraceful death. Dion Carth.

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